(Montreal) A man believed to be responsible for numerous false bomb threats around the world in recent weeks, including around fifty in Quebec alone, has finally been arrested in recent days in Morocco’s Sûreté du Québec (SQ). .
Posted at 12:32 p.m.
The 45-year-old suspect is said to have been involved in “a massive sending of emails containing references to a bomb threat” between October 18 and November 27.
“In Quebec, these emails were sent to several educational institutions, but also to companies, professional offices, governments and the media. In total, around fifty files with the same characteristics were listed by police forces in several regions of Quebec,” the SQ said in a press release.
In these emails, the sender demanded a ransom in exchange for revealing the location of the bombs.
“The investigations carried out by several international agencies, in which the Sûreté du Québec participated, made it possible to identify and arrest the alleged perpetrator of these false bombings,” stressed the SQ.
The suspect was eventually arrested in Tafraoute, a small town in southwest Morocco.